Billy Joe Saunders hungry for more belts; says he’d fight Caleb Truax next, move up to 168

12/22/201712/22/2017 James Slater

Billy Joe Saunders seems ready to fight just about everyone, at both middleweight and at super-middleweight. The WBO 160 pound champ, fresh off last Saturday night’s brilliant boxing display against David Lemieux, has called out: Gennady Golovkin, Canelo Alvarez, Danny Jacobs and now, as he explained to The Star, a shot at newly crowned IBF super-middleweight champ Caleb Truax.

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Fans want Burnett-Tete and Saunders-Jacobs

12/21/2017 Rob Smith

The boxing public wants to see the best fights involving bantamweight champions Ryan Burnett facing Zolani Tete, and WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (26-0, 12 KOs) defending against former IBF belt holder Daniel Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs). Why can’t the fans see those fights?

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Frank Warren on Saunders’ win over Lemieux: That was as good as anything Floyd Mayweather’s done

12/21/2017 James Slater

There is no doubt about it: Billy Joe Saunders turned in a quite magnificent performance last Saturday night in Canada when he totally outclassed and defused dangerous puncher David Lemieux; Saunders scoring one of the finest “away wins” from a British fighter in some time.

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Golovkin’s trainer says Saunders fight will be determined by demand by fans

12/21/201712/20/2017 Andy Brooks

It was thought that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) would seek out a unification fight with WBO 160lb champion Billy Joe Saunders (26-0, 12 KOs) once Triple G got past Saul ‘Canelo Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs), but it looks like that’s no longer the case.

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Saunders won’t be fighting Canelo says Gomez

12/21/201712/20/2017 Rob Smith

Saul Canelo Alvarez won’t be fighting WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders next on May 5th. Eric Gomez says Golden Boy Promotions is focusing on making the Canelo vs. Gennady Golovkin rematch isn’t ruling out a future fight between Canelo and Saunders.

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Danny Jacobs fights on 4/28, wants Saunders

12/20/2017 Andy Brooks

Danny Jacobs (33-2, 29 KOs) will be fighting next on April 28, and his management are offering WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders the shot at facing him. Jacobs will be fighting on HBO on April 28, so Saunders will have a chance to showcase his skills to the U.S boxing fans like he did last Saturday night in beating David Lemieux.

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Is Billy Joe Saunders a pound-for-pound fighter?

12/20/2017 James Slater

Tyson Fury says that after his commanding win over Lemieux, BJS should be in the top-10

There is no doubt about it, WBO middleweight ruler Billy Joe Saunders put on one of the most impressive, classy and thoroughly dominant performances of the year with his wider than anyone expected, near shut-out decision win over a dangerous puncher in David Lemieux on December 16.

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Saunders: I’ll school Canelo and Golovkin

12/18/201712/17/2017 MTK Global

Billy Joe Saunders has vowed to “school” both Gennady Golovkin and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez following his master-class WBO world middleweight title victory over David Lemieux in Montreal on Saturday night. MTK Global-managed Saunders oozed class as he cruised to a dominant unanimous-decision points win over former IBF world champion Lemieux.

The Hatfield native, who is now based in Sheffield under trainer Dominic Ingle, was awarded every round on one judge’s card, 120-108, while the other officials scored the bout a lop-sided 118-110, 117-111 to make it a shutout.

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Billy Joe Saunders: They [GGG and Canelo] won’t want to fight me now

12/17/2017 James Slater

So what next for reigning, undefeated, WBO middleweight champ Billy Joe Saunders? With last night’s hugely impressive display in totally outclassing a dangerous David Lemieux, a fighter Saunders defused, the gifted southpaw certainly put himself in a great position. Saunders cannot be ignored by the elite of the elite any longer, and it seems the big fights with either Gennady Golovkin or Canelo Alvarez, or maybe even both, will have to come.

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Saunders beats Lemieux – Results

12/17/201712/17/2017 Golden Boy Promotions

Billy Joe Saunders (26-0, 12 KOs) outpointed hometown hero David Lemieux (38-4, 33 KOs) to retain the WBO Middleweight World Championship in the 12-round main event of HBO World Championship Boxing at Place Bell in Laval, Quebec, Canada. Saunders, a native of the United Kingdom, outboxed Lemieux for 12 rounds from his slick southpaw stance to win via unanimous decision with scores of 120-108, 117-111, and 118-110.

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